Romella Kitchens

The Battle Ground Of Food - Poem by Romella Kitchens

The Battle Ground Of FoodThe poor are not poor because it is their fate.The poor are poor because their aggressors, even in their lands fight wars against them with economics.

The hungry are hungry because those that are againstthem wish to create genocide by hunger.If one looks at history, there has never been a countrynor a civilization in which the entitled knew even one dayof hunger.But, look at the starving masses of their enemies or those who do not boast their traits, religion, color, politics or class.To starve children, is to starve an opposing future.There are those in this world who know, practice and understand mercy and those who do not...They practicecontrol.We can not change the cruel nature of retaliatory 'man'.We can only create strategies to exhibit the caring aspectof man around it.